repelled
Meaning of repelled
verb, past tense
- drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away.
- be repulsive or distasteful to.
she was repelled by the permanent smell of drink on his breath
- refuse to accept (something, especially an argument or theory).
the alleged right of lien led by the bankrupt's solicitor was repelled
late Middle English: from Latin repellere, from re- ‘back’ + pellere ‘to drive’.
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Hyphenation of repelled
re-pelled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- repelled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
repelled synonyms
Meaning drive back (an attack or attacker) by force:
Meaning ward off (a weapon or attack) with a countermove:
Meaning prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning prevent (a plan or attempted action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled:
Meaning claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false:
Meaning cause to feel disgust:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval:
Meaning make (someone) feel disgusted or appalled:
Meaning fill (someone) with disgust:
Meaning be displeasing or cause problems to:
Meaning fill with horror; shock greatly:
repelled antonyms
Meaning please (someone) greatly:
Anagrams of repelled
Words that rhyme with repelled
appalled, autodialled, backpedalled, balled, beballed, becalled, begalled, bethralled, blackballed, caballed, called, cannonballed, carnalled, catcalled, corivalled, coronalled, corralled, corrivalled, coveralled, credentialled, crystalled, curveballed, cymballed, devalled, dialled, disenthralled, disinthralled, drywalled, dualled, emballed, enthralled, envassalled, enwalled, equalled, eyeballed, firewalled, forestalled, galled, generalled, gimballed, gimmalled, halalled, hallalled, highballed, initialled, installed, intervalled, inthralled, inwalled, jackalled
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